Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2025

Novonix is also collaborating with local educational institutions to create STEM-focused training programs and offer employment opportunities to disadvantaged groups. The project is expected to create 450 jobs and produce 31,500 metric tonnes of synthetic graphite annually, supporting 325,000 EV batteries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 25, 2024

By charting the performance against peer groups, I could see the story. The first step was to find a reliable data set and establish the peer groups. The second step of establishing peer groups was trickier. It took us four years to establish what we believe are representative peer groups based on the performance patterns.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I define supply chain excellence as the ability to outperform an industry peer group during a time period. The premise is that best-performing companies outperform their peer group (improvement) with a tight pattern (resiliency), while balancing operating and capital expenses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This group now includes luxury brands globally, offering enhanced utility, transparency, and traceability. Luxury Goods & Anti-Counterfeiting: NFT-Based Tokenization & Zero-Knowledge Proofs The luxury sector has adopted blockchain to fight counterfeiting.In

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Colin Masson, ARC Advisory Groups expert on Industrial AI. Lets delve into the core concepts of AI Agents and multi-agent workflows, their relevance to what ARC Advisory Group calls Industrial AI , and their potential to revolutionize supply chain management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The group turnover for Amul in 2023-24 is Rs 80,000 crores ($10 billion), which is an increase from Rs 72,000 crores ($9 billion) in 2022-23. In collaboration with IBM, Amul has set up an ERP base system to integrate its upstream and downstream partners to improve efficiency, reduce wastage and balance the supply and demand.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2024

Chris Jones, Executive Vice President, Industry at Descartes Systems Group, has been our guest on Talking Logistics several times to discuss the various challenges associated with labor shortages. In a January 2022 episode we discussed, “The Labor Shortage Problem: Why It’s Bigger Than You Think.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Corporate Knights also ranked the company the most sustainable company in its peer group and the 7 th most sustainable company overall. This French public multinational was selected as having the best global supply chain by a leading analyst firm. Schneider Electric’s supply chain operation is of great interest to other practitioners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Warner Music Group was an early adopter. While SAP has had procurement analytics solutions, last year at Spend Connect Live, SAP announced the Spend Control Tower. This solution provides insights in a much easier way to digest. Users at Warner Music now automatically get insights.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Last month, Descartes Systems Group (a Talking Logistics sponsor) held its “2023 Descartes Innovation Forum for Broker, Forwarder and Customs.” I served as a panelist on a session titled, “AI in Logistics Technology – Ally or Adversary?” I was joined on the virtual stage by Nelson Cabral, National Customs Manager at DSV Air & Sea.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As the authors of a July 2021 Boston Consulting Group article state, Read more The post Bringing Together Supply Chain and Logistics Collaboration with Business Networks appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. the important lessons learned from the past few years, especially those in response to the Covid pandemic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. In my forty years of studying supply chain planning, the groups became larger, but with questionable results.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In fact, back in January 2022, we had Chris Jones, Executive Vice President, Industry at Descartes Systems Group, on the program to discuss this problem in an episode titled, “The Labor Shortage Problem: Why It’s Bigger Than You Think.”. Labor shortages were among the top supply chain challenges faced by companies during the Covid pandemic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2025

As my colleague Colin Masson pointed out – Colin is ARC Advisory Groups expert on industrial use cases for AI – at ARCs Industry Leadership Forum in 2024, end users were largely observers who were eager to learn about things like Gen AI, agents, and industrial use cases for using AI. We are descending the AI hype curve.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

The group’s goal was to drive process innovation through collaborative networking. The group wanted to focus on models and engines, so the conversation was void of a discussion of outcomes. I want to broaden the discussions to focus on policy, strategy, and rules automation, but most groups cannot help themselves.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 20, 2024

As reported last week by BBC Business reporter Charlotte Edwards,“Workers for some suppliers of Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are still working 75 hours a week, despite the company promising to improve conditions, a report [by Swiss advocacy group Public Eye] suggests.” appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 9, 2023

The panel group is sourced from my group of LinkedIn followers. As a result, with the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence, the group flounders. This group struggles if companies cannot clearly define an operating strategy and a supply chain excellence definition. My goal is to help.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2024

With dynamic prioritization, planners assign priority codes and work groupings that allow related tasks to be grouped. The orders associated with the FedEx truck, the first parcel truck to arrive, become Group 1. UPS orders become Group 2, and USPS becomes Group 3. Then, the work is dropped to the associates.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A few weeks ago, I sat down to speak with Mike Noble, SVP of Technology and Jonathan Mitchell, Director of Software Services at Open Sky Group. About Open Sky Group Open Sky Group is a supply chain technology company, boasting a carefully curated portfolio with best-of-breed partners and cutting-edge SaaS platforms.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

While companies that supply chain leaders believe are top performers– J&J, P&G, and Unilever– do not outperform their peer group. I list sixteen in Table 2, but of the 29 companies listed in the Gartner Top 25, 27 underperform their peer group sector. Is this success? Is this success? I don’t think so.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The CNW Group reports, “Three quarters of businesses worldwide are overhauling their supply chains by working with more rather than fewer suppliers to mitigate risks in an increasingly fragmented global environment. ” There are, however, some well-known dragons supply chain risk managers will continue to encounter.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Demo is a Founding Partner and Chief Commercial Officer of IPL Group , a Panama based 3PL that helps companies expand their business into the Latin American market by simplifying order fulfillment and regional distribution. About IPL Group IPL Group helps global firms expand their business into the Latin American market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Now let’s get to the Supply Chain News: Descartes Acquires Sellercloud Descartes Systems Group, a standout provider in logistics solutions, announced its acquisition of Sellercloud, a US-based provider of omnichannel e-commerce solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Over the past 20 years, Nari has held VP and Director of Product Management, Research and Marketing roles at various companies such as E2open, i2 Technologies and Aberdeen Group. Nari Viswanathan is a six times SDCExec Supply Chain Pro to Know award winner.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

According to Colin Masson, a director of research at ARC Advisory Group, the opportunity to mine these vast quantities of data to achieve business value is “NOW.” Many global multinationals accelerated their investments in digitizing data during the pandemic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2024

In fact, Estee Lauder has just finished an elaborate deployment of supply chain planning yet is not driving improvement faster than their peer group. Evaluate the performance of L’Oreal against peer group in Figures 3A and 3B. Note that L’Oreal is driving a faster level of improvement and market capitalization than Estee.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

If you answer the survey, I will gladly give you a custom analysis of your organization against the peer group. The financial teams, and the Information Technology (IT) groups, did not see alignment gaps, but the supply chain teams felt them and viewed them as a critical performance issue. To respond, follow this link.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

They are unconscious that they are underperforming their peer group and have not driven industry improvement. Sanofi Performance Versus Peer Group for 2013-2022 Similarly, I find 35% of companies following the pack not able to drive resilience in the face of market shifts. The group is pragmatic. Challenge this paradigm.)

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 1, 2024

Danny is the CEO and Co-founder of Rapido Solutions Group , a logistics nearshoring partner to leading freight brokerage firms in the USA. About Danny Frisco As CEO and co-founder of Rapido Solutions Group, Danny oversees sales and is responsible for the long-term strategy and vision of the company.

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Freightos

APRIL 15, 2024

Eytan Buchman CMO, Freightos Group Eytan Buchman loves freight so much he shouts out container sizes while he walks around. He’s obsessed with marketing, data storytelling (it’s a thing!) and bakes really good cookies.

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Freightos

MAY 23, 2024

A recent Freightos Group survey on long-term ocean container contract reliability found that at the start of the pandemic when ocean spot rates first surged, importers saw 34% of their contracted containers rolled by carriers prioritizing more lucrative spot shipments. But a far more acute problem shippers face today is rolled cargo.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

According to a survey by ARC Advisory Group, only 10% of industrial companies are ready to apply artificial intelligence/machine learning. Knowledge Graphs are emerging as an important tool for building advanced AI capabilities. He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well.

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